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    "speaker_name": "The Minister for Transport",
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    "content": "(Mr. Kimunya) Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are several components to the request. The Government should bring business to the House until the Bills are ready for submission to the House. As the hon. Member would be aware, there is a process involving the formulation of the Bill to its publication and maturity before it can even be put on the Order Paper. We got ourselves into a very complicated law-making mechanism where it is not just the Government originating the Bills from the Cabinet and bringing them to the House, but they all have to go through all the stakeholders before they eventually get to the Government and then brought to the House. Today we approved two Bills, which will hopefully be published in the course of this week and we will have them brought to the Floor of the House. The other Bills are still being worked on by the various stakeholder groupings. So, in the interest of an all-inclusive stakeholder consultative process, it is taking longer for those Bills to get to the Floor of the House. What I can assure the House is that there will be no Bills which should be here, which will be waiting in Government. For those Bills which are ready, once we go to the House Business Committee, obviously, we will be prioritising in terms of business as and when they have already been linked between the Government and the House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not sure what we will be reporting on Thursday but, obviously, within our usual reporting, we will keep the House as up-to-date as possible in terms of where we are and in terms of the business as has already come to the House. However, I would not want to tell the House that in the next three weeks, we anticipate a Bill to go to Cabinet. I would only want to confine myself to what will be coming to the Floor of the House within the next one week as agreed within the House Business Committee."
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